conveyor

One of our largest systems integrators came to us with a challenge. What’s the best way to rotate a 10,000 lb. load, 90 degrees in 8 seconds, on an assembly line, with easy access?

The end user assembles 17’ x 6’ x 7’ roof top units for restaurants and businesses. The main production line consists of CDLR (Chain Driven Live Roller) Conveyors. Another important requirement – engineering a solution to enable assemblers to walk between the two conveyors to work on the top, front and back sides of the unit.

Versatility is a broad and sometimes vague area to define. However, utilizing our pre-engineered products, we provide answers and solutions to our customers’ challenges. For this particular application we conveyed trailer suspensions which are obviously designed to provide low-maintenance while operating for a long and safe journey.

Since the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing has been a key component to our country’s growth. Did you ever stop to think about how those Lucky Charms got on the grocery store shelf? A food scientist develops the taste and formulas – recipes so to speak. Engineering creates and designs the equipment/processes to manufacture those sweet sugary morsels and delectable charm marshmallows. Once the cereal is made, equipment is manufactured to bag and package the cereal. Which by the way, there’s a whole process to just printing, folding, gluing, and stuffing those colorful boxes.

The average American eats 120 pounds of potatoes each year or almost 365 per person or a spud a day. There are more than 100 varieties of potatoes sold throughout the United States. Each of these varieties fit into seven general categories such as Russet, Red, White, Yellow, Purple/Blue, Fingerling or Petites. Additionally, potatoes can be baked, fried, mashed, steamed, stewed, scalloped or roasted. Potatoes are an essential ingredient to many delicious dishes such as soups, salads, fries and pancakes. The uses for and concoctions with potatoes are endless.

Approximately 95% of what we manufacture utilizes our pre-engineered building blocks. Alba’s pre-engineered building blocks come in different forms such as Chain Driven Live Roller (CDLR), transfers, turntables, drag chain, Motorized Zero Pressure Accumulation (MZPA), gravity conveyor as well as lift and rotate devices.